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We propose a two-component asymmetric FIMP (feebly interacting massive particle) dark matter (DM) model in which both DM candidates are real scalar fields. The model is an extension of the Standard Model (SM) by two scalar DM components and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 S. Peyman Zakeri

We present a new paradigm for achieving thermal relic dark matter. The mechanism arises when a nearly secluded dark sector is thermalized with the Standard Model after reheating. The freezeout process is a number-changing 3->2 annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-30 Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Tomer Volansky , Jay G. Wacker

The particle-physics nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the central open questions in modern physics. A widely used framework to investigate DM properties is provided by simplified models (DMSimps), which extend the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Mattia Di Mauro , Bohan Xie

An unavoidable prediction of scenarios with Dark Matter (DM) self-interactions is the existence of number changing processes that convert $n$ initial DM particles into $m$ final ones ($n\to m$ processes), possibly accompanied by Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Motoko Fujiwara , Alejandro Ibarra , Takashi Toma

The $\Lambda$CDM model, while successful on large cosmological scales, faces challenges on small scales. A promising solution posits that dark matter (DM) exhibits strong self-interaction, enhanced through the narrow resonance or Sommerfeld…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Shao-Song Tang , Murat Abdughani

We consider a resonant SIMP dark matter in models with two singlet complex scalar fields charged under a local dark $U(1)_D$. After the $U(1)_D$ is broken down to a $Z_5$ discrete subgroup, the lighter scalar field becomes a SIMP dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Soo-Min Choi , Hyun Min Lee

We present an overview of scenarios where the observed Dark Matter (DM) abundance consists of Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs), produced non-thermally by the so-called freeze-in mechanism. In contrast to the usual freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Nicolás Bernal , Matti Heikinheimo , Tommi Tenkanen , Kimmo Tuominen , Ville Vaskonen

We demonstrate that if the dark matter (DM) in the Universe contains multiple components,the interactions between the DM components may induce DM conversions. It is then possible that the lightest DM component with an annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-11 Ze-Peng Liu , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the main candidates for the relic dark matter (DM). The idea of the direct DM detection relies on elastic spin-dependent (SD) and spin-independent (SI) interaction of WIMPs with target…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-20 V. A. Bednyakov , H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

It has recently been proposed that dark matter could be a thermal relic of 3-to-2 scatterings in a strongly coupled hidden sector. We present explicit classes of strongly coupled gauge theories that admit this behavior. These are QCD-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-28 Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Hitoshi Murayama , Tomer Volansky , Jay G. Wacker

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of testing the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) models by applying the simplest phenomenological model which introduces an interaction term between dark energy (DE)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Wei Cheng , Yuan He , Jin-Wang Diao , Yu Pan , Jun Zeng , Jia-Wei Zhang

We provide a variant model of strongly interacting massive particle (SIMP), where composite dark matter comes from a strongly interacting U(1) theory. We first explain a non-Abelian version of the model with an additional singlet field,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-05 Ayuki Kamada , Masaki Yamada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida , Kazuya Yonekura

The existence of Dark Matter (DM) in the form of Strongly Interacting Massive Particles (SIMPs) may be motivated by astrophysical observations that challenge the classical Cold DM scenario. Other observations greatly constrain, but do not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Nadir Daci , Isabelle De Bruyn , Steven Lowette , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Bryan Zaldivar

Inspired by our recent paper "reshuffled SIMP dark matter", we notice that the reaction rate of the two-loop induced $2 \to 2$ process may dominate over or be comparable with that of the $3 \to 2$ process at the chemical freezeout of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-17 Shu-Yu Ho , Chih-Ting Lu

We explore the idea of an alternative candidate for particle dark matter namely Feebly Interacting Massive Particle (FIMP) in the framework of a two component singlet scalar model. Singlet scalar dark matter has already been demonstrated to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Madhurima Pandey , Debasish Majumdar , Kamakshya Prasad Modak

We consider a complex scalar field as SIMP dark matter in models with gauged $Z_3$ discrete symmetry appearing as a remnant of dark local $U(1)$. Dark matter (DM) annihilates dominantly by the 3-to-2 scattering, due to the DM cubic coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-27 Soo-Min Choi , Hyun Min Lee

In this article we propose a class of extremely light feebly interacting massive particle, FI$m$Ps. They are combination of feebly interacting massive particle with scale invariance, by which DM stability, mass origin and relic density are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-26 Zhaofeng Kang

In this talk, I explained how the observed dark matter (DM) relic abundance can be accounted for in models composed of three sectors (the DM, the Standard Model (SM) and a light mediator) connected to each other. This scenario is explored…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Laurent Vanderheyden

We develop a minimal, testable framework for two-component self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) in which a dominant, moderately self-interacting species coexists with an ultra-strongly self-interacting subcomponent (uSIDM). A light vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 M. Grant Roberts , Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Pierce Giffin , Stefano Profumo

If multiple thermal weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates exist, then their capture and annihilation dynamics inside a massive stars such as Sun could change from conventional method of study. With a simple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-25 Amit Dutta Banik